chacma baboon

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   greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa

   SynonymschacmaPapio ursinus

   Broaderbaboon

Questions about chacma baboon

What does chacma baboon mean?

chacma baboon means "greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa".

What is another word for chacma baboon?

Close synonyms include chacma, Papio ursinus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chacma baboon a common word?

chacma baboon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.